1/2" gap in bumpers, is this acceptable?

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Originally Posted by eagle33199

Of note here - in some previous years, it was NOT required to have soft bumper material in the corners. Specifically, i know our first year (2007) we build our bumpers with no material at all in the corners, and they were perfectly legal.

Since then, we've cut all of our pool noodles at 45 degrees to fill the corners nicely.

we do too, i think. (BTW, never leave the robot supported by it's bumpers for an extended period of time, we did that to last year's bot recently, and the bumpers are squished down to half their normal size)